Ash Road: Text Classics by Ivan Southall
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Category: Text Classics | Series: Text Classics
It's hot, dry and sweaty on Ash Road, where Graham, Harry and Wallace are getting their first taste of independence, camping, just the three of them. When they accidentally light a bushfire no one would have guessed how far it would go. All along Ash Road fathers go off to fight the fires and mothers he ...Show more
Jonah by Stone Louis
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Category: Text Classics | Series: Text Classics
One side of the street glittered like a brilliant eruption with the light from a row of shops; the others, lined with houses, was almost deserted, for the people, drawn like moths by the glare, crowded and jostled under the lights. It was Saturday night, and Waterloo, by immemorial habit, had flung itse ...Show more
The Cardboard Crown - Text Classics by Martin Boyd
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Category: Text Classics | Series: Text Classics
This remarkable novel, first published to a chorus of acclaim in 1952, is one of the lost classics of Australian literature. Martin Boyd is a deeply humane novelist, a writer of family sagas without peer. Set in Australia and England in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century, The Cardboard Crow ...Show more
Wake in Fright: Text Classics by Kenneth Cook
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Category: Text Classics | Series: Text Classics Ser.
Wake in Fright tells the tale of John Grant's journey into an alcoholic, sexual and spiritual nightmare. It is the original and the greatest outback horror story. Bundanyabba and its citizens will forever haunt its readers.
Terra Australis: Text Classics by Matthew Flinders
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Category: Text Classics | Series: Text Classics
First published in two-volumes in 1814, this is the enthralling account of the circumnavigation of Australia, by the man who gave our country its name. Edited and introduced by Tim Flannery, Terra Australis is a vital step toward a new understanding of our own history. Flinders tells of meeting and com ...Show more
The Mystery of a Hansom Cab: Text Classics by Fergus Hume
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Category: Text Classics | Series: Text Classics
Fergus Hume's sensational novel The Mystery of a Hansom Cab is Australia's original blockbuster and international best-selling crime novel. First published in 1886, it was an overnight sensation, selling hundreds of thousands of copies around the world and being translated into eleven languages. Over a ...Show more
The Scarecrow by Ronald Hugh Morrieson
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Category: Text Classics | Series: Text Classics
"The same week our fowls were stolen, Daphne Moran had her throat cut." Fourteen-year-old Neddy Poindexter and his mate Les take swift revenge on the chook-rustling Lynch Gang, but things turn sinister when vulture-like Hubert Salter stalks into Klynham. There's a sex killer on the loose, and Neddy is i ...Show more
Strine: Text Classics by AFFERBECK LAUDER
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Category: Text Classics | Series: Text Classics
How's your ebb tide? Do you sign on the dotted lion? Is your tea nature Orpheus Rocker? Who is Charlie Charm Puck in 'Waltzing Matilda'? There was never any book about Australian speech like Strine or about posh British speech like Fraffly Well Spoken. Here, collected in one volume, are Afferbeck Lauder ...Show more
Stiff: Text Classics by Shane Maloney
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Category: Text Classics | Series: Text Classics
The fiddle at the Pacific Pastoral meat-packing works was a nice little earner for all concerned until Herb Gardiner reported finding a body in number 3 chiller. An accident, of course, but just the excuse a devious political operator might grab to stir up trouble with the unions. Enter Murray Whelan, m ...Show more
Sydney Bridge Upside Down by David Ballantyne
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Category: Text Classics
"There was an old man who lived on the edge of the world and he had a horse called Sydney Bridge Upside Down. He was a scar-faced old man and his horse was a slow-moving bag of bones, and I start with this man and his horse because they were there for all the terrible happenings up the coast that summer ...Show more
The Middle Parts of Fortune: Text Classics by Frederic Manning
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Category: Text Classics | Series: Text Classics
"The drumming of the guns continued, with bursts of great intensity. It was as though a gale streamed overhead, piling up great waves of sound, and hurrying them onwards to crash in surf on the enemy entrenchments. The windless air about them, by its very stillness, made that unearthly music more terrib ...Show more
The Dig Tree (Text Classics) by Sarah Murgatroyd
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Category: Text Classics | Series: Text Classics
Wills knew that he was fading fastest. On 26 June, he decided the only honourable thing to do was to sacrifice himself to save his companions. †̃Without some change,â€TM he wrote, †̃I see little chance for any of us.â€TM In 1860, an eccentric Irish police officer named Robert Oâ€TMHara Burke led a ...Show more